Marriner A Quotes & Sayings

He tethered me to him, my magnetic north, while my mind went here or there. I always knew. Somehow I always knew. — T.J. Klune

We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs ... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war. — William J. Perry

Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing. — Ogden Nash

She's beautiful. In the way she is. — Markus Zusak

Taste is changing, style is changing, and players' abilities are changing. — Neville Marriner

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it. — Neville Marriner

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians. — Neville Marriner

Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps pointed us in a direction of a new interest in this repertoire. — Neville Marriner

But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them. — Neville Marriner

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use. — Neville Marriner

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. — Neville Marriner

Give what is absolutely free, because he sees nothing in us that can be a ground of salvation. — John Calvin

Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000. — Neville Marriner

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it. — Neville Marriner

One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music. — Neville Marriner

On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much." — David Hockney

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less. — Neville Marriner

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now. — Neville Marriner

I think we were all frustrated with our daily routine. — Neville Marriner

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking. — Neville Marriner

I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own. — Neville Marriner

So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well. — Neville Marriner

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more. — Neville Marriner

I just wish, maybe, that I'd started conducting earlier. I was about 40 when I started. Apart from that I don't really have any regrets. Is that bad? — Neville Marriner

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate. — Neville Marriner

We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie. — Neville Marriner

So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional. — Neville Marriner

As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption, mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth ... to provide men with buying power ... Instead of achieving that kind of distribution, a giant suction pump had by 1929-30 drawn into a few hands an increasing portion of currently produced wealth ... The other fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit ran out, the game stopped. — Marriner Stoddard Eccles

This American Jewish music is a new experience for us at least consciously. — Neville Marriner

Authors are really polite and down to earth, it's just people always have a sarcastic and bully approach towards them. There is nothing wrong in being expressive and intellectual, Writers only differ in perceptions.. Reserve and lost in their own created world, those who know them personally, they know.. what I mean ... ? — Himmilicious

One thing we were looking for from the start was players who really fit together, who sounded in tune. — Neville Marriner

Work makes a callus against grief. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

If I can pay the bills, I'm happy. — Morgan Wootten